Whether then or now — north, south, east, or west, the world needs help. It’s full of people who are mentally attacking others and don’t even know that they’re attacking — they just think they’re right, or cool , or some kind of a victim.
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Success in the world is about getting a lot of heads wagging in agreement, but the truth doesn’t get people’s heads wagging; it shocks them — or at least gets them questioning a lot of things.
Gary Renard
The Disappearance of
The Universe
Philosophers on anger
“He who, before he leaves his body, learns to surmount the promptings of desire and anger is a saint and is happy.”
~ Bhagavad Gita
“Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die”
~ Buddha
“Anger resteth in the bosom of fools.”
~ Ecclesiastes
“Remember, if you are hurt or angered by something said or done by another, it isn’t their fault. It’s because something is wrong with YOU!”
~ J. Krishnamurti
“Forgiveness is the greatest weapon, because a saint so armed is unperturbable he can give up anger immediately.”
~ Neem Karoli Baba
“Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.”
~ Eckhart Tolle
“Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering. If you resist confusion, you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.”
~ Adyashanti
“There are many winds full of anger, and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, but the solid mountain of our true nature stays where it’s always been.”
~ Rumi
“I found that love freed me back into the ocean of love and my righteous anger didn’t do that. And I would rather be free than right.”
~ Ram Dass
“There is no doubt that anger, lust, and greed are evils. Why, then, has God created them? In order to create saints. A man becomes a saint by conquering the senses. Is there anything impossible for a man who has subdued his passions?”
~ Ramakrishna
“Unless you really awaken you can never make this world a better place in which to live. Why? Due to the fact that you are the universe right now, just the way you are! Therefore, if you are filled with anger, animosity, greed, avarice, and the rest of those things, so is the world! You have created the world. The world is an emanation of your own mind. What you think of yourself you think of the world. If you are filled with fear then world frightens you. If you are filled with greed you believe everyone else is greedy. The world is a reflection of you, that’s all it is.”
~ Robert Adams
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”
~ 1 Corinthians 13 4-7
Never treat a person
NO PERSONAL STORIES, NO DETAILS, NO PERSONALITIES, JUST HEALING
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Now I want to explain one reason why we never treat a person, why we never give a treatment to any person. If anything in my writings has led to the belief that I would ever give a treatment to any person, let me correct that concept now. ..I have never given a treatment to anyone, and I have never directed my thought to a person. I have never addressed the individual consciousness of any person.
Never have I said, “You are spiritual; you are perfect; you are God’s child.” Never have I allowed the name of a patient to come into my thought while I was “treating.” Never have I allowed the face, or thought, or outline of any face or body, to come into my treatment. I do not, I cannot, give a treatment until the person asking for help is completely out of my thoughts.
My treatment is based on lifting thought up to God and on eliminating any sense of person. I jump, as fast as I know how, up to the word God: I lift my thought over the person’s head, not because God is up there, but because for me it eliminates personality and person, and then I am in God. Then I come out from God, and let flow out whatever truth I know about God-all the truth I know about God. I never connect it with any individual.
And the reason is this: God is the only individual in the world. God is infinite individuality; God is the only place, the only person, the only power. God is the only reality.
If I turned away from God, I would be treating an illusion.
Joel S. Goldsmith
Consciousness Unfolding: God Revealing the Infinity of Being
Realm of Soul, the kingdom of God – ACIM
Higher even than the plane of body and mind, there is the realm of Soul, the kingdom of God. Here we find the reality of our being, our divine nature – not that body and mind are separate or apart from Soul, but that Soul is the deepest recess of our being. In the realm of Soul, we find complete tranquility, absolute peace, harmony, and dominion. Here we find neither good nor evil, pain nor pleasure – only the joy of being. We are in the world, but not of it because we no longer see the world of sense as it appears to be but, having awakened our spiritual sense, we “see him as he is” – we see through appearances to the Real.
ACIM
“Created” vs “Is”
I guess the best way to deal with a word like “created” is to recognize that it has two main connotations (most people disregard this and get tangled in terminology). God created man VS God as man. If God IS all, there’s nothing to create. If God created all, it’s saying the same thing as a SEEMINGLY two-step process. It would SEEM that JSG and ACIM disagree, but I say it’s merely a matter of semantics.
Transition uses discordant experiences – JSG
The crucifixion of the self is accomplished when there is nothing left for which you wish to pray. To those unfolding on the spiritual path, come the discordant experiences of human life, until the transition from “this world” has been completely accomplished.
The desire is to avoid or escape these inharmonies of mind, body, or economic affairs – but this cannot be done, since the discords result solely from the battle with Spirit and “the flesh,” that is, with spiritual consciousness and material sense.
To those on the way, harmony in human affairs often is a lack of spiritual awakening; and, therefore, when the battle, leading to the overcoming of “this world” is on, the initiate will remain as quiet as possible under the adverse circumstances, endeavoring to refrain from fighting erroneous conditions and insofar as possible “letting” the warfare go on until the moment of transition arrives.
When your spiritual study is sincere, the breaking-up of your material world –the desertion of friends, students, or family, a change of health or other outer activity — often ushers in the spiritual transition, or rebirth. This is the attainment of that which you have sought. A tremendous movement is taking place as the initiate discerns the difference between physical harmony and spiritual wholeness.
The Infinite Way
Head, brain, universe, all projected – GR
Your head, your brain, your body, your world, your entire universe, any parallel universes, and anything else that can be perceived are projections of the mind. They are all symbolic of just one thought.
Gary Renard
Knowledge vs Perception – ACIM
From knowledge and perception respectively, two distinct thought systems arise which are opposite in every respect. In the realm of knowledge no thoughts exist apart from God, because God and His Creation share one Will. The world of perception, however, is made by the belief in opposites and separate wills, in perpetual conflict with each other and with God. What perception sees and hears appears to be real because it permits into awareness only what conforms to the wishes of the perceiver. This leads to a world of illusions, a world which needs constant defense precisely because it is not real.
ACIM
Siddhartha became Buddha = Christ – JSG
Siddhartha, who had left his home and family in search of truth, finally received enlightenment and became the Buddha, the Enlightened One, or as we term it, the Christ of his day.
Joel S. Goldsmith
The Infinite Way
“I am awake” (Buddah) = I made illusion – GR
When Buddha said, “I am awake,” he meant he realized that he was not actually a participant in the illusion, but the maker of the entire illusion. Still, there is another step required, where the mind that is the maker of the illusion chooses completely against itself in favor of God. Of course someone of Buddha’s tremendous accomplishment had a snap of it, quickly going on to the exact same awareness as J[esus].
Gary Renard